Quotes About Self

Discomfort irritates our ego like a mosquito-bite. We become aware of ourselves, the more uncomfortable we are

We are possessed by nobody not even by ourselves

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour—the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

he carried his body about with him like something he hated.

If I hate her so much as I sometimes do, how can I love her? Can one really hate and love? Or is it only myself that I really hate?

Hatred is in my brain, not in my stomach or my skin. It can't be removed like a rash or an ache. Didn't I hate you as well as love you? And don't I hate myself?

Can a mirror keep a print? Can you look into a mirror and see someone else? Can you step through a mirror and be someone else?

How do the various neurons that are scattered throughout the brain know that the individual is doing compassion meditation, mindfulness awareness, praying, or is an atheist meditating or thinking about self?

Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed God is Dead! he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.

You're much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.

It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.

She didn't want to change just to be better. Though there was always better to aspire for. It was very confused.

Trust yourself, because as Oprah says, doubt means don't every time

the end, only you can make you happy.

into another identity. And I

You cannot see yourself, can you, Anne? Except in a mirror, and there everything is backwards.

I saw her as she showed herself to the world: fun, smart, sexy. Funny how those things are often a smoke screen from one's true self. It's easy to act all those things. Up for adventure. Head nods at complex scenarios when she's not really listening. Ready for bedroom play even when there is no bedroom. In the beginning, Sophie was all those things. I didn't know they were a construct. I thought they were key parts of who she was.

We tend to become the decisions we make. The more we choose something, the more we become that something. We are all in the process of solidifying our identities by the decisions we make. With each decision we make, we pick up momentum in the direction of that decision.

The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone's identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one's world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world.

We can think of the Matrix as the total web of lies we've internalized that keep us living in contradiction to our true self— the self that is defined by God through Christ alone.

Every shortcoming, every sin, every struggle in the believer's life in one way or another can be traced to the influence of the flesh on our way of seeing and experiencing ourselves in our world—our experienced self-identity. The

Terrors can be mirrors, too.

abstract himself out of the moment

In return it had used the energies to rebroadcast itself and its owners' Message.